Li, Chang
Zhou, Yuning
Yin, Zhijie
Jiang, Yinping
Liu, Jinpeng
Weiss, Heidi L.
Wang, Qingding https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4797-4876
Evers, B. Mark https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9425-2342
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (R01 DK048498)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (R01 CA272669, R01 CA272669)
Article History
Received: 10 July 2024
Revised: 25 April 2025
Accepted: 9 May 2025
First Online: 28 May 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. Collection of all patient materials for this study was obtained following patient consent and approved by the University of Kentucky Institutional Review Board (IRB #48678). The University of Kentucky’s Institutional Review Board reviewed the protocol for this study and determined that it does not utilize human subjects since discarded, de-identified tissues are obtained from the surgical pathology repository. Specific informed consent was not obtained for this project since the tissue samples were considered to be discarded surgical specimens and absolutely no identifying information is provided.